Thanks, everyone, so far.
I'm not 100% sure how to address the passing issue. I feel like my one real advantage in that regard is that I'm about 5 feet tall flat on my feet. So, even in my highest heels, I'm shorter than a lot, if not most, women, lol. :D But, that said, I'm also about 20 pounds heavy, and I have oddly large biceps for someone who doesn't work out and never has.I don't feel like I have a very fem face, especially my monstrous nose. (I know it's a good pic, but you don't see all the bad ones it takes to get the good one.) I can maybe pass at about 20 - 30 feet, but not close up. No way. To how I dress, it's nothing too far out. Maybe it would work better on someone about 10-15 years younger (I'm about to be 39), but it's mostly leggings and body suits. I'm too fat to have too much hanging out.
I think I dress mostly appropriately, not anything clown-like, at least in my opinion. I know we're not really supposed ot post pics, so I won't, but I think I pull it off reasonably well for someone almost 40.
Besides the obvious safety concerns - particularly right now, with many people being over-stressed and looking for someone to release upon - I just don't do well with being the center of negative attention. I don't necessarily need the world to love me (in RL, a lot of people really hate me, seriously), but there's just something about public humiliation that is a borderline phobia for me. Now, perhaps that makes me . . . crazy? Selfish? Immature? Hell, I don't know. I just know it's not something I can just blow off and go "oh, that's funny." No. Not at all.
